V. I. Lenin

Written:Written in late September 1905Published:First published in 1931 inLenin Miscellany XVI.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 41,

      pages175.2-176.1.Translated:Yuri SdobnikovTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaCopyleft:V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marxists.org)
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Dialogue Between anOsvobozhdeniyeMan[DOUBLE SQUIGLY.]

and a Social-Democrat[DOUBLE SQUIGLY.]

[1]Total “wretchedness” from the standpoint of military technique, etc. But
have a look at the movement and its spontaneous growth:
January 9&—Riga&—Poland&—1.5-million-strong
strike&—Odessa&—Caucasus&—Moscow. September 1905.
&—Lenin

{2}This is a critique of the tactical line followed by the bourgeois
liberals who, in the magazineOsvobozhdeniye(Emancipation) and
other periodicals, sharply opposed the idea of an armed uprising, rejected
the idea of boycotting the Bulygin Duma and called for participation in it.

Lenincriticised Kautsky’s stand on the provisional revolutionary
government (point 3 of the “Note”) in his article “Two Tactics of
Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution”

(see present edition, Vol. 9, pp. 108–09).

Thequestion of making use of “elderly” workers (point 5 of the
“Note”) was elaborated in Lenin’s letter to S. I. Gusev of September 30
(October 13), 1905

(see present edition, Vol. 34, pp. 358–59).

Leninelaborated the question of the Social-Democratic attitude to
parliament (point 6 of the “Note”) in his letter to A. V. Lunacharsky of
September 28 (October 11), 1905

(see present edition, Vol. 34, pp. 352–53).

p. 175

{3}A quotation from N. A. Nekrasov’s poemWho Can Be Happy and Free in
Russia; the whole stanza says:Mother Rus!You are wretched,You are rich,You are powerful,You are powerless!p. 175